Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-20

to defend the bsr-rooms in this fight it
must show to the world that its client has
a right to live and deserves lasting
habitation among our people. All its
yells about st. Johnism and St. Peterism
and all other isms will not avail it any
thing .among intelligent people. The
citizens of Texas are not fools. They
know this contest is between the people,
homes and the barrooms. Argument
along this line is fair and legitimate;
false cries and misleading issues injected
into the campaign will recoil on those
who originate them. At the present time
all the sophistry Is being used by the
ants The Prohibitionists are sticking to
the text Waco Advance.
great cry is being raised about the
destruction of the young grape industry
of Texas. Does this howl come from the
vineyards or from the saloons and dis
tilleries?-T Killeen Banner.
The most touching thing about this
prohibition campaign is the amount OF
anxiety manifested about personal liberty.
As long as there is such devotion to per-
sonal liberty it may be safely assumed
that the republic is safe. By the way,
what is personal liberty2 Is it not some
what abridged by the ten commandments?
= Gainesville Register.
Blood money is being sent to Texas
from the north to defeat the amendment,
and those who send it say farmers must
be looked after. They think the towns
are generally right for them. Yes, the
farmers are the hope of the country, and
will work out this great reform. 1t is an
insult to their intelligence for beer
makers and liquor dealers to presume to
influence them. The farmers have begun
the work of reform and will purify the
body polite Sulphur Springs Gazette.
Are the prohibitionists prepared to put
their hands in their pockets and replace
the thousands upon thousands of dollars
of revenue which will be gone provided
prohibition passes? If not, they should
not advocate the passage of the measure.
Il TeXarkana Times.
The Austin Statesman wants to know
why the Prohibitionists do not include
opium, "whose habitual use is fer more
destructive of mind and body than .Whls-
ky" We suggest that the Legislature
has already prohibited this drug in the
recent law providing for the suppression
of opium Joints. This is as far as the
most ardent Prohibitionist proposes to go
in the suppression of liquor, being simply
the closing, by law, of open (and secretl
saloons, Just as the Legislature prohibits
open Cor secret opium Joints. The in
tention in both cases is precisely the
same-to discourage the habit of artificial
stimulation by restricting and limiting
the source of supply Waco Day.
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The True Blues made no mistake at
Dallas. Read their platform in another
column. This is strictly q non-partisan
fight on the merits of the case. The Pro-
hibitionists alone have bIundered. They
have lead and made the fight, establish
ing their lines on weak grounds. The
gush and the sentiment are with them;
theirs the theories lmpractiCable OF
capitalization while the arguments of
the ants are addressed to the the COM
mon, everyday sense of the people, to
their "practical thoughts and to their
pockets. Do they offer q prohibition
which will prohibit ? Will it reduce the
drinking Of whisky ? Will it pay? No.
i AlYarado Bulletin.
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Say, there, you little old Texas farmer,
who has for 10 these many years been
sitting under your own vine and fig tree,
and gathering the wild mustang and sap
oak grapes and making them into wine
for your own use, are you going to vote
for the amendment, which, if carried, will,
make you criminal in the simple enjoys
ment of this ancient aud God-given priViS.
lege?-[ Decatur Post. ~
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